Studies. So good afternoon. Im the director and associate fellow of the Americas Program set csis and it is my pleasure to welcome you today. We are very excited to host such a distinguished panel to discuss this topic. Last december, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, better known as amlo, took office in mexico. He won the election in july 2018 in a landslide victory on an leftwing platform that promised to among other things promote the respect of human rights, improve the economy, work to end ongoing drug war and address corruption at all levels of government. For many mexicans and was rep centered a paradigm shift from the governance of the past two decades and sees himself as a remedy to ineffective government responses to corruption and violence. Yesterday marks the First Anniversary of his inauguration and during his first year in office amyl has enjoyed a record high approval rating. However in the past year hes also seen challenges on many fronts including mexicos security, economy
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And burst johnson visits tony blairs old seat to thank former labor voters for helping the conservative secure their 80 seat majority. And sporting asian champions al hell out there through to the semifinals at the Club World Cup maybe an afghan counterparts as barretts one nil to advance to the final 4 while they are faced with a mango next. Saddams former president omar bashir has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 2 years in a Reform Center 75 year old will not serve his time in prison because of his age the trial centered around suitcases found in his home filled with notes of multiple currencies worth more than 130000000. 00 hit morgan reports from the capital car too. The verdict is announced following weeks of hearings in the corruption trial of sudans longtime leader and ousted president bashir but regarding cases with the offer mentioned age of bashir the Court Sentences that depended 2 years in the community Reform Center and. That judgment was followed by chaos
They face south americas top siple a mango Club World Cup semifinal. A very warm welcome to this hour of news we begin the news hour in pakistan where the armys expressed its opposition to a verdict by a top court which is sentenced former president Pervez Musharraf to death while musharraf led pakistan for 9 years after seizing power in a military coup 1999 he had served as chief of army staff just before that well this case relates to the nationwide emergency him post after suspending the constitution back in november 2007 he was convicted of treason its on likely little that the sentence will be carried out the former lives in exile in exile in dubai and he was tried in his absence welcome to has more from pakistans capital islamabad. After a special court part that gets 10 tenths against a former ruler of pakistan generated by the way my child who is in Critical Condition in a hospital and the by day was a wave of rage and maimed and anger from several including the countrys milita
Continents. And were at the scene of an airstrike in libya that left at least 5 people dead in. The battle against drug crime in mexico has taken a deadly turn for the worse the countrys just not stopped the most homicides in a single day since records began in 1997 after 127 people were killed on december 1st many are now questioning the president s strategy of hogs not bullets in tackling Drug Cartel Violence as alan fischer reports from mexico city. It will take a while to repair the damage to be in your own city hall the memories of what happened here will last much longer. Than saturday afternoon a convoy of vehicles covered in the. Initials of the local drug cartel c d n drove into town and began fighting this the authorities believe was sending a message to the Regional Government to. Security forces surrounded the turn 60 kilometers south of the texas border by the time the gun battles ended on sunday 22 were dead 16 gunman 4 Police Officers 2 civilians pictures of local politi